Gold Leaf windows: TS Edwards solicitors

[Karl Williams]

Looks smart and expensive. Very classy mate.

[John Imrie]

it’s along time since i done a bit of glass gilding it’s a long time since i done any signwriting gelatine and a bit of static the only glass guilding of mine that i still see is on a monumental sculptors window in sunny ayr it still looks like new today but it must be 20 years old
i don’t think that the vinyl manufacturers are giving that sort of guarantee yet

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Lovely.
Pure class!
Love….Jill

[Nicola McIntosh]

very smart 😀

nik

[Neil Davey]

quote John Imrie:

it’s along time since i done a bit of glass gilding it’s a long time since i done any signwriting gelatine and a bit of static the only glass guilding of mine that i still see is on a monumental sculptors window in sunny ayr it still looks like new today but it must be 20 years old
i don’t think that the vinyl manufacturers are giving that sort of guarantee yet

Maybe you ought to get your tip and cushion out and blow the dust off them John………..there is still a market for traditional work.

Thanks Karl, Jill & Nik, there’s nothing quite like goldleaf.

Jill did you see the article by Chris Lovelady in Signcraft combining computer cut masks with goldleaf… I’m going to give that a go, and also the fire appliances, now that is guilding 😮

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Yes I did. I just gilded a window over the weekend with a computer mask.
(altho it was not a brilliant water gild but a surface gild on the smooth side of frosted glass with LaFranc slow size)
It turned out real well for me and I am a very poor gilder.
I was taught by my friend Bob Hovanek from Big City Signs in Johnstown (site of the infamous flood)
to cut a thinnish outline around the letters in the masking but not weed that out.
Apply the size then remove the outline so you don’t get a ridge.
Love….Jill

[Kimberley Edwards]

quote :

there is still a market for traditional work.

– Yes, there is – especially when so few people do it, the ones who do can carve out a niche. I’ve not done any glass gilding since I was taught, but I do get many calls for sign painting – typical caller says "I really want hand painting, and you’re the only person I could find doing this." Of course there are others, but I’ll be satisfied they found me. I like the low overhead – a few brushes, a few cans of One Shot, a mahl stick, a bag of charcoal and a couple ladders (of course I’ve added the computer for the layouts).

Your work on the solicitor’s window is beautiful, Neil. That will last for 50 years, no problem.